"And she could never be anyone’s but her own."
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Graceling by Kristin Cashore ·
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Someone who influenced you to travel abroad:
It’s hard to pinpoint one person who was particularly influential. My grandpa liked to talk about his travels and I have a friend who has traveled all over the United States, but my main inspiration came from travel books. Here’s a list:
- Wanderlust by Elisabeth Eaves
- The Good Girls’ Guide to Getting Lost by Rachel Friedman
- The Lost Girls: Three Friends, Four Continents, One Unconventional Detour Around the World by Holly C. Corbett, Amanda Pressner and Jennifer Baggett
"To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare."
So I had to read Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express for homework…
AND THE CRAZY THEORY I FORMED HALFWAY THROUGH THE BOOK TURNED OUT TO BE RIGHT!!!!
Hahaha, as I read I turned to my housemates, who are in the same class as me, and said, “AH, I bet it’ll turn out that they all are in this together or something!” which they totally blew off so I just returned to reading.
But as I read, I thought of how Julius Caesar was stabbed by all his ‘friends’ and so I went and counted the passengers on the train…14 passengers, 12 stab wounds. I knew that two of the passengers were innocent (even though the one I thought was innocent was actually guilty) so it worked out perfectly.
I’m sort of excited about this, haha.
"In the world of stories, nothing is lost."
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Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
I read excerpts from this in one of my classes last semester and liked it, so I picked it up at the library today. I’m debating whether or not to bring this to Lisbon with me. It’s such an engaging read, but I don’t think I’ll have a lot of reading time…
"She could not steal herself back from Randa only to give herself away again–belong to another person, be answerable to another person, build her very being around another person. No matter how she loved him."
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Graceling by Kristin Cashore ·
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"He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize how much he cared for her, and he told her so, and she called him an idiot, and he declared that it was the finest thing that ever a man had been called."
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Stardust by Neil Gaiman ·
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The Good Girl’s Guide to Getting Lost by Rachel Friedman
Another travel memoir! I cannot stop reading these. The book begins with 20-year-old Rachel Friedman arriving in Dublin, Ireland for a 4-month solo journey. I flew through the sample chapter and just purchased it…eep, and I have two books I have to read for class!!!!!!!!!
